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At the beginning of September of the second year of Qianfu, Li Jing had basically completed the reorganization of the 21st Army under his command.

After the reorganization of the various armies, Li Jing ordered the four armies of the five armies of the newly organized Zhenguo Army, except for the Yanyun Army, to be stationed in the 16 counties of Ziqing Town, and a fleet of 2,000 men and horses of the Water Army was transferred to Jishuikou and the Yellow River Estuary to garrison.

The most elite Wuya soldiers of the Zhenguo Army changed their guards and moved to southern Liaoning with the reorganized Pinglu Army, Dengzhou was handed over to the United Army, and the Daxie Islands, Changxing Islands, and Changshan Islands were garrisoned by the other three fleets that had just returned from the Zhenguo Army.

The fleet that had gone south had all returned, and with them the thousands of merchant ships. These ships brought back the grain that Li Jing needed most, thousands of ships of grain, although the profit from Lingnan to Dengzhou was not too high, but Li Jing needed food. These merchants also knew that the goods in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning were very profitable, so after receiving Li Jing's assurance, most of them transported grain back on the return trip. There are also many merchants in Lingnan, after accepting the high grain prices of Li Liang, Pei You and others, and transported a large amount of grain to Dengzhou, ready to make a big profit, and then along the way brought back a batch of Dengzhou commodities that are currently selling hot in Lingnan, Guangzhou, Annan Jiaozhou and other places.

The price of grain brought by these merchants was very high, 5,000 yuan per stone of grain, almost ten times the price of grain compared to three years ago.

Li Jing didn't bargain, he asked for it all.

This batch of grain is a lot, and when Megan returned earlier, she brought back a million stone of grain. And now this batch, more, up to five million stones. Eat this batch of grain. It takes 25 million dollars.

That's a lot of money. During the reign of Dezong, the total revenue of the two taxes of the imperial court was only 30 million yuan, 16 million stone millet. By the time of Xuanzong, the total income of the imperial court was only 9.25 million a year.

Of course, this is because by this time, the income of the imperial court was only the taxes and salt tea revenues of the thirty-eight southeastern states.

But it can also be seen from this that this money is indeed a lot. At the time of Dezong, 16 million stone millet was 8 million yuan. And now, five million stone grains cost two fifteen million yuan, which is almost the income of the two taxes and salt tea for two years of the current imperial court.

Li Rang heard that Li Jing had promised to buy this batch of grain at a high price, so he couldn't help but hurriedly ask to see Li Jing.

As soon as they met, they immediately said: "My lord, in fact, we don't have to buy these grains now, I have calculated, there is still a lot of grain in our warehouse at the moment." Last year's autumn harvest and this year's summer harvest were not high, although the grain output was not high due to the bad year. But we have a lot of newly cultivated land, and the harvest is not bad. We have 400 tuns of troops at the moment. Each tun is 50 hectares, which is enough for 2 million acres. And that's not counting the fields in the hands of the people, which are nearly 3 million acres, and we now have 5 million acres. Our military tun alone, with an average of one stone per mu, produced five million stone of grain last year. ”

"We now have a population of 2 million, and three stones per capita is enough to feed and clothe us, and six million stones of grain a year is enough."

Li Jing shook his head, "No, six million stones a year is not enough at all. Three stones a year is true, but you haven't counted anything else. Now is the time of war, there are often wars, and when there is a war, the consumption of food is huge. And there are war horses, war horses have to eat three stone millet in a month, have you counted this? A war horse will eat 42 stone millet a year, and we will now build a cavalry force of 20,000 people, and at least raise about 30,000 war horses, and these war horses alone will eat more than 1 million stone millet. Moreover, we have a large number of logistical pack horses, donkeys, and mules, and these costs are also very great. ”

In a year of war, what is the richest? Grain!

No matter how much gold and silk there is, it is not as useful as money and food when it comes to war. Food is crucial, and now it looks expensive, but after all, it can still be bought. When there is no market for price, you can't cry anymore.

"The family has surplus food, and there is no panic in my heart. We are not afraid of too much food, nor are we afraid of being expensive. Li Jing tapped lightly on the table and said patiently to Li Rang.

"I know that we still have about 7 million stone of grain and grass now, and it looks like it's enough to eat the noodles. But we can't count it like this, you also know that we are about to use troops to Liaodong, the land of Liaodong, grain is not easy to transport, the front-line soldiers eat one bucket of grain, and three buckets have to be consumed on the road. Moreover, we also stationed more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Ziqing Town, which also had to rely on the rear to transport food supplies. Besides, I plan to recruit more displaced people to come to Liaodong, which also requires food. ”

"But we don't have that much money." Li Rang was a little embarrassed, since he took over the money bag of Zhenguojun, Zhenguojun's family is very rich, which makes him very happy. However, it is still quite difficult to spend 25 million yuan to buy grain. "We still have about 10 million yuan in our account, and we have all the belongings."

"Exchange our goods, horses, cattle and sheep, furs, gold and silver, as well as our books, paper, perfumes, liquor, fruit wine, rock sugar, cloth, and even weapons and armor, and even ships and warships, which can be sold. Well, even those Hu captive slaves can also be sold. ”

"But these are also costly, if all the food is exchanged, it will not be able to sell to others, and now we have managed to open up the business road on the first line of the Jishui Yellow River, but we can't run out of stock."

Li Jing frowned, "You calculate first, if we exchange all these goods in our hands for food, how much can we exchange for them?" ”

"At most, for a million stones, we were also the first batch of grain that we exchanged for commodities. Why don't you join Dengzhou, Liaonan and the major caravans to eat this batch of grain? Li Rang asked.

"Nope." Li Jing refused without thinking about it, this batch of food is very important, and it can't be given to others easily. "Raise the price of a few of our unique commodities as well."

"In this way, I can buy another 200,000 stones."

Li Rang was a little depressed, sighed and said: "It would be nice if there were more people in our gold mine, the gold and silver are on the Lingnan side, and when they trade with the merchants, they like it very much." It's a pity that one or two pieces of gold can be exchanged for two stones of grain, but unfortunately although we have several large gold mines, the output is still too small. ”

"You go back and think of other ways first, if there is really no way. I can only eat this batch of grain with other big families and caravans. Li Jing was also a little helpless. Although he wanted to eat these thousands of boatloads of grain himself. But I don't have the capital.

After Li Rang left, Li Jing was still a little uneasy. I was thinking in my heart that even if I let the big families eat these grains, I had to think of countermeasures first. The previous ban policy must be strictly enforced, and even if these big households buy grain, they cannot be allowed to become second-hand dealers and sell it to other places. In any case, this batch of grain can no longer leave the territory of Dengzhou and Liaodong.

One more point. If these big households have their hands on grain, grain prices must be controlled, and they must not be allowed to manipulate grain prices and hoard them. It is necessary to limit the price of grain, and the most important thing is to firmly control the grain in our hands and ration the people under its rule. Do you want to issue food stamps, and you can only buy food with food stamps?

Li Jing knows very well in his heart that at a time like this, grain is the real hard currency. Only when food prices are stabilized can other prices be stabilized. Only then can prices be lowered and the lives of the people can be stabilized. The economic order of the Zhenguo Army can be a virtuous circle. Otherwise, the long-lasting inflation, the most unlucky person is Li Jing, and it is the dominance of the Zhenguo Army that will be harmed.

But if Li Jing wants to lower the price of grain, he has to prevent someone from buying grain from him and then hoarding it, or simply smuggling it out of the city and becoming a second-class dealer. Therefore, it is very important that grain is allowed to enter and not to be allowed to leave. Rationing of food, and the prohibition of hoarding is also the same.

But it's still a little early to think about this, and you have to get the food in your hands before you can think about these problems. Only with a large amount of grain in his hands can Li Jing do the above.

"Which beauty are you thinking about?" Meghan's voice suddenly rang in my ears.

Li Jing looked up, but saw that she didn't know when Lu Dao came in, and was staring at him.

"Is there something wrong?" Li Jing came back to his senses.

Meghan snorted dissatisfiedly, "Yesterday, I kept saying that I wanted to marry someone else as a wife, but today I immediately forgot about it." ”

"Why, just thinking about something. I just came back, why don't you take a little rest? Li Jing reached out and grabbed Megan's waist, took her into his arms, and sat on his lap.

The beauty twisted her waist and hips a few times in her arms, but it immediately ignited Li Jing's desire, and the wonderful buttocks rubbed against the bottom of the robe, making Li Jing immediately raise his gun to salute. Megan felt it immediately, but instead smiled at him, and then writhed a few times more seductively, making Li Jing take a long breath suddenly.

Li Jing was provoked, and he stretched out his hand to climb the pair of peaks, wanting to correct her on the spot.

But Megan chuckled, pushed Li Jing's hands away, turned around and left his arms directly, and walked to the opposite side and sat down.

Looking at this female goblin, Li Jing had to sigh.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Megan said: "Didn't you say last time that if I marry you, I can also lead troops in the future?" Why is it that after this reorganization, the four fleets were merged into a naval army, but I am not even the commander of the Angry Waves fleet, I want to ask if those people are mistaken. ”

"Oh, that's what happened." Li Jing chuckled, "That's right, you have been removed from my position as the commander of the Angry Waves Fleet. ”

"For what?" Meghan's face was already a little unkind.

"Because, I decided to divide the 8,000 men and horses of the navy into four compartments and sixteen battalions, and you will immediately be promoted from the commander of the original Nutao fleet to the deputy commander of the navy, and serve as the deputy envoy of the navy, and concurrently serve as the front chamber, that is, the soldiers and horses of the Nutao fleet."

"Who's the master?" Megan asked with a smile.

"Naturally, it's Pei You, what's the matter, aren't you convinced?" Li Jing also asked with a smile.

"If it's General Pei, I'm convinced. And what about Julie? ”

"I'm going to let her take the position of the commander of the marching army."

Megan nodded with satisfaction, "You still have a conscience." As he spoke, he took a box from the table on one side and carefully brought it to Li Jing, "It's not in vain that I came all the way to bring you this gift." ”

"What gift?" Li Jing didn't expect Megan to bring him a gift.

"Treasure, bought from a big food merchant in Guangzhou, a small thing, worth a million dollars!" As she spoke, Megan opened the box as if offering a treasure and took something out of it.

At the first glance of this gift, Li Jing couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, this thing is actually worth a million dollars? Immediately afterward, a second thought immediately arose in his mind, one that made him excited. (To be continued......)